Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
W3BNR<[email protected]> wrote:
Problem resolved by closing SM, and:
1. Removed following files:
<profile>News\news.mozilla.org.msf
<profile>News\news.mozilla.org\mozilla.general.dat
<profile>News\news.mozilla.org\mozilla.general.msf
2. Modified following file by deleting mozilla.general: 1-xxxxx
<profile>News\news.mozilla.org.rc
3. Resubscribing to mozilla.general
4. When asked for how many files to download I responded with '0'
and delete the rest.
Note: When I did the above and responded with more that '0' in step
the problem
still existed. Perhaps there is some bad or corrupted file in the
news server?
Probably not, since we have no other reports of this problem from users
of mozilla.general. I have not had a problem, but then I'm not using SM
for news right now.
If any other SM user had a problem with that group, please report it
here.
I'm not having trouble with that particular NG, but I do have a chronic
problem with SeaMonkey's handling of the messages unread count and
display of threads with unread. Not sure if this should be a separate
thread.
My normal settings are to display all messages, threads with unread,
threaded. After a few days or a week, the count of unread messages in
the left-hand pane diverges from reality, so SM will say there are more
messages unread than it will show me in the right-hand panes.
Additionally, when I get the reported count down to zero, SM will still
display some threads as if they contained unread messages, but when I do
"N" to go to the next unread message, it asks whether I want to jump to
the next unread message in my default/primary mailbox. Part of the
program knows there are no unread messages, and part of it doesn't.
Finally, "N" sometimes takes me to a message already marked as read, and
I've sometimes experienced the frustrating/laughable situation of
jumping back and forth between two unread messages using "N."
The only solution I've found is to unsubscribe and delete the msf and
dat files for the NG, and then resubscribe.
I purposely don't use "K" to kill threads as that has made the situation
worse in the past.
It doesn't seem to matter whether I download all 50K messages on
resubscribing or just the last 5K (marking the rest as read).
Paul, I seem to remember I was getting incorrect message counts some
time ago (may have been in Mozilla Suite or even Netscape). As I recall,
it turned out the problem was that I had set some filters to hide
messages but not set the message to "Read", so I couldn't see the
message but it was still unread!!
HTH
Daniel
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